This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: fix potential out-of-boundary access to ibss rate table
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mwifiex-fix-potential-out-of-boundary-access-to-ibss-rate-table.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5f0fabf84d7b52f979dcbafa3d3c530c60d9a92c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 20:00:16 -0800
Subject: mwifiex: fix potential out-of-boundary access to ibss rate table
From: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5f0fabf84d7b52f979dcbafa3d3c530c60d9a92c upstream.
smatch found this error:
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c:1121
mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_join()
error: testing array offset 'i' after use.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c
@@ -1102,10 +1102,9 @@ mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_join(struct mw
adhoc_join->bss_descriptor.bssid,
adhoc_join->bss_descriptor.ssid);
- for (i = 0; bss_desc->supported_rates[i] &&
- i < MWIFIEX_SUPPORTED_RATES;
- i++)
- ;
+ for (i = 0; i < MWIFIEX_SUPPORTED_RATES &&
+ bss_desc->supported_rates[i]; i++)
+ ;
rates_size = i;
/* Copy Data Rates from the Rates recorded in scan response */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/mwifiex-fix-potential-out-of-boundary-access-to-ibss-rate-table.patch
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